Monthly Archives: November 2006

Friday is the final deadline for session proposal submissions for the third annual Northern Voice — a conference dedicated to weblogs and social software hosted here at UBC, February 23-24. Attendee registration is also open, and a mere fifty bucks … Continue reading →

Via OLDaily, Norm Friesen has just posted the third installment of his “E-Learning Myths” series, this one entitled The Myth of the Knowledge Economy. It ain’t easy reading, but I wish every edublogger who has praised The World is Flat … Continue reading →

So if it ain’t trying to keep up with grading, or the annual grant writing frenzy, it’s something else… I’m having enough trouble keeping up with email. And I won’t even get into the local boil-water advisories and Vancouver’s annual … Continue reading →

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Nice spot for a track, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer. The blog has been quiet, and I … Continue reading →

I was too tired to write a proper summary of the mind-altering NMC Regional Conference on the flight back, and today is not the day either… Because the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the only sports team that matters, improbably won their game … Continue reading →

On the flight down I was hunting through my hard drive for useful sound clips, and ended up listening again to a conversation via Skype I had with Gardner Campbell some months ago while preparing for the New Media Consortium’s … Continue reading →

Today I am literally swamped. Not misusing ‘literally’ here, I mean my place is besieged by floodwaters, much of the yard underwater, the city engineers responsive but apparently unable to do much until the rain lets up here in Van … Continue reading →